In
just one month, FoxNews.com has promoted the bogus connection between
homosexuality and pedophilia on three separate occasions.

On
August 11, the website posted a column
by Fox News contributor and anti-gay pseudoscientist Dr. Keith Ablow, in which
he compared homosexuality to pedophilia and asserted that both gays and
pedophiles could alter their sexual orientations as a result of environmental
factors.

On August 25, FoxNews.com posted yet another Ablow column -- "Paving the Way for Condoning Child
Rape” -- in which the “Fox News Medical A-Team” member lamented a recent
symposium
put together by B4U-Act, a group that seeks to reduce the stigmatization and
stereotyping of people who are attracted to children:

But, now, there should be no doubt
that our culture is poised to begin embracing pedophilia as a lifestyle
choice, just like homosexuality. A group of psychiatrists and other mental
health professionals called B4U-Act, which has representatives from Harvard and
Johns Hopkins, gathered recently in Baltimore to organize their push to change
the negative perception of pedophiles and encourage them to get help in a
nonjudgmental environment.

While B4U-Act is not representative
of mainstream psychiatry, and while the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
did not participate in the group’s meeting, psychiatry has a history
of caving into cultural pressure to stop defining controversial illnesses as
pathological. You won’t even find ego-dystonic homosexuality—meaning,
homosexual impulses that cause an individual to feel distressed and which that
individual does not want to give into—in the DSM, anymore. [emphasis
added]

On
August 24, FoxNews.com published an article, also covering the B4U-Act symposium.

While
the majority the article focused on the outcome of and reactions to the event,
Fox couldn’t help but bring up a comparison between homosexuality and
pedophilia:

Critics of the effort also note that the movement likens its
fight for pedophilia acceptance to society's more recent embrace of
homosexuality. They warn of a slippery slope to a time when pedophilia is
"just another lifestyle choice" that won't warrant criminal
charges—and will leave young children at risk.

This
wasn't a minor article on Fox's site; it was
prominently displayed on the front page of FoxNews.com:

[FoxNews.com, accessed 8/24/11]

Fox doesn’t make clear which “critics” are making the
pedophilia/homosexuality argument. Still, it’s safe to assume that it came from
one of the two opponents of the symposium interviewed for the article. So who
are they?

One
is, of course, Peter Sprigg from the Family Research Council (FRC), which has
been designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. This is the second time
Sprigg has been cited in a FoxNews.com article in two days. Sprigg authored an FRC
report which makes the claim that gays
are more likely to molest children than heterosexuals. Sprigg is also no
stranger to promoting anti-gay animus through major news
outlets, having publicly called for the criminalization of homosexuality
and the exportation of gay people out of the U.S.

The
other critic quoted in the article is Dr. Judith Reisman. Fox doesn’t bother to
mention it, but Reisman is a vocal proponent of
the ‘gays are pedophiles’ myth. She is the author of an essay entitled “Where Are The Arrests Of Thousands Of Men
Who Give AIDS To Boys?,” in which she claims
that gays are seeking to recruit and molest
young boys, giving them AIDS as a result:

Homosexual males molest boy victims far more often than
heterosexual males molest girl victims. Psychologist Eugene Abel reported
homosexuals, “sexually molest young boys with an incidence that is occurring
from five times greater that the molestation of girls.”